Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Proof Romney says whatever you want to hear.

LA Times has a story on the Romney election machine that documents what voters in a particular region want, then craft a message to appeal to them.

All those transactions with your credit and debit cards, all those clicks on your mouse, they're all being cataloged - indirectly - by the Romney team, via purchases of gigabytes of tracking data:
"Because more data are now collected online, the campaign has been able to cull up to 300 pieces of information about a voter, compared with fewer than two dozen in 2008."
I am not naive, not to realize that Obama's campaign will end up doing the same thing this year, or that other candidates are already doing this.  However, because Romney has hundreds of millions in the bank, he has a big leg up on his primary opponents, allowing him to buy his way into the Republican nomination through a built up series of white lies.

Let's face it: the one and only reason why most people consider Romney the front-runner, is because of his hundreds of millions in the bank.  People are willing to overlook his white lies, so long as they think he can beat Obama, as a result of those hundreds of millions of dollars.

And that's why I just can't stand the guy.  Those white lies expose the lack of a backbone -- he can't stand up on his two feet with just the basic truths of his platform.

He disgusts me.

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